A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 14:20 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> reluctant to learn something new. Crowd 2. we can win over, yet 
> we have failed to communicate with them, to reach out to them. 
> Most people I know have a look at D's homepage and say "Uh! Hm. 
> Ah, I'll use Python." No, they are not hardcore programmers, they 
> are engineers and scientists. But they are _users_, people who 
> need to write software to analyze data, to create something. We 
> should not ignore them, even if they are not (initially) 
> interested in templates and metaprogramming. Neither was I, when 
> I first learned D.

It is not Python or R or Julia the language that people choose, it is
the superstructure built on top. So for Python, it is Pandas,
Matplotlib, SciPy, NumPy. And the ability to use ready made C, C++ and
Fortran libraries.   

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